The Town and the City. A novel.
JACK KEROUAC (writing as 'John Kerouac').
From Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 02 March 1999
From Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 02 March 1999
About this Item
The first UK edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 499pp. Beige cloth lettered in red at the spine. Backstrip and upper edges of the boards lightly spotted. Endpapers partially browned and with some additional light spotting which also impacts several preliminary and (blank) concluding leaves. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Stein, with just a touch of spotting and tanning, several tiny closed tears and several slivers of loss from the spine panel ends. First published by Harcourt Brace in the US in March 1950, this distinctly more uncommon UK edition followed a year later. The novel was not a success: it was trashed by a number of reviewers, Kerouac's royalties did not exceed his advance of $1,000 and it was six years before the publication of his next novel, 'On the Road'. Seller Inventory # ARC91063
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Town and the City. A novel.
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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